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Peri PeriMonash University, Clayton, VicThere is a great deal of guff in the culinary arts and letters – not to mention from the tongue of those pesky postcolonial academics – that contends a dish should not just taste wonderful but also 'tell a story', be it about its origins, cooking method or some such other nonsense. To wit, if I wanted my food to tell me a story I would deposit some Faulkner

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Bakers Delight Chocolate Croissant$3.20Ah, the revered pâtissier, perhaps the most feared and respected in the whole brigade de cuisine, these are chefs who have devoted a lifetime to the refinement of but one food, the pastry. The entremetier, rôtisseur, even chef de cuisine, all kowtow and tremble at the feet of this most accomplished of culinary artists, for stationed against him or her they

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Farm House1 Litre Milk, approx $2.14Ah, milk: that glorious product of the eternal toil of legions of listless bovines, loved by all men, that nurturer of marrow and smoother of java, liquid among liquids.And yet, I am confounded whenever I enter my local grocery larder by the knavery on display in the milk refrigerator – ‘low fat’ this and ‘skinny’ that, not to mention the scores of home brand

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Subway Sandwich BarLeeds St, Footscray, VictoriaBookings Inessential, impossible in factSeating Up to two per tableToilets NilPrice Around $7 per head (more for footlong)Features Delightful pour-your-own post-mix machine(Jake Longstreth)I despise fast food that postures as healthy, balk at strangely tasteless bread and consider Jared my epicurean nemesis, so what the devil am I doing sitting in

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How many snooty food critics do you come across that refuse to review nothing less than five star establishments? Why should their erudition and wit be reserved for the chef hats, Michelin stars and silver services of the food world? It’s time to bring a touch of discernment and culture to the places where the common people gather and eat. If MasterChef brought fine food to the people, then The

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